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Nationalism, Antisemitism, and Fascism in France (Paperback, 1 New Ed)
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Nationalism, Antisemitism, and Fascism in France (Paperback, 1 New Ed)
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This wide-ranging work confronts the complex question of
nationalism in France in its various permutations--myths,
obsessions, possibilities, and dangers. French nationalism has
always been a double-edged sword, from its beginnings in the French
Revolution through the two Napoleonic empires, Boulangism, the
Dreyfus affair, the fascist groups of the 1930's, Marshal Petain's
National Revolution during World War II, and its latest
contemporary incarnation in Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front.
The author distinguishes between an "open" nationalism, based on
the revolutionary values of liberty and equality for all, and
"closed" nationalism, which is xenophobic--and, more particularly,
antisemitic. He studies not only governments and political
figures--Napoleon, Louis Napoleon, Marshal Petain, and General de
Gaulle--but also the myths associated with nationalism. These myths
are captured in newspaper articles (the charity bazaar fire of
1897), in literature (Huysmans, Celine), and in the writings of
insurgents (Edouard Drumont, Jules Guerin). The author pays
particular attention to French "national socialism," which wanted
to transcend the categories of left and right in order to unite
workers and owners under the banner of a providential leader, but
which inevitably scapegoated the Jews. In tracing the history of
closed nationalism and its need for a providential man, the author
also sheds new light on the relation between socialism and fascism
in France, most recently brought to the fore by the Mitterand
government in the 1980's.
In the process of analyzing nationalism in France, the author draws
on areas of study ranging from French anti-Americanism and Zeev
Sternhell's history of "unconscious" fascism in France to the
mythical use of Joan of Arc in the service of antisemitism.
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